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Topic: Underrated Stephen King's adaptations

The most underrated one is Riding the Bullet imo.There is the symbol of death that runs through whole movie,very good story,fantastic cast I love it !I would also mention Needful Things,another great adaptation

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I don't know i certainly havent checket out Riding the Bullet or Needfull things. Most of the more acclaimed adaptions i have watched (The Shining, Salem's Lot, Carrie) have actually been for me very underwhelming compared to the original novels, or in The Shining or Carrie's case when considering them as separate movies. The TV movie The Stand i found particularly poor with particularly bad casting choices and unconvincing performances. (7.2 rating on IMBD, What the hell is going on there!). The book, again by contrast SO much better. Maybe i will enjoy RTB or NT when i eventually watch them though cause i haven't read the original books yet. Christine however i enjoyed quite a bit, far more than the supposed 'masterpiece' in The Shining film and is my clear favourite among adaptions of Kings work. I suppose u could say then is Christine is underrated.

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I enjoyed Storm of the Century, but it's not an adaptation. He wrote it for the screen. Favorite lesser known adaptation is probably The Secret Window. I hated The Stand. It doesn't even come close to living up to the book.

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Well, a lot of King movies are flat out failures. I don't think there's any underrating going on when it comes to stuff like The Stand, The Langoliers, The Golden Years, etc. because, well, they were actually bad.

Personally I think the most under-rated is Needful Things. I loved the book but the ending was god-awful, which is something King actually does a lot -- pulls you into this great story and wows you and scares you and thrills you and then does something really lame for an ending. I mean seriously, Pangborn scares off the devil with a can of trick worms embued with the power of his love for his son? PSSSHHHHTT! The movie ending works SO much better. And I think Ed Harris was the best Sheriff Pangborn to date.

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I remember I heard about The Langoliers and bought it cheap (never ever seeing a trailer or whatnot) and watched it one night when bored and...oh my, oh my goodness was that movie bad. The end scene made me laugh it was that bad.

I've never been a big fan of King's work at all to be honest (his books obviously) - I liked The Shining, Carrie and Misery (except the parts of the novel where you reading what the guy was typing, I skipped every part that was like that, ugh I hated that) but yeah...I'd say he is pretty overrated. The movie adaptions haven't been that good either except for your obvious ones.

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LoudLon wrote:

Well, a lot of King movies are flat out failures. I don't think there's any underrating going on when it comes to stuff like The Stand, The Langoliers, The Golden Years, etc. because, well, they were actually bad.

Personally I think the most under-rated is Needful Things. I loved the book but the ending was god-awful, which is something King actually does a lot -- pulls you into this great story and wows you and scares you and thrills you and then does something really lame for an ending. I mean seriously, Pangborn scares off the devil with a can of trick worms embued with the power of his love for his son? PSSSHHHHTT! The movie ending works SO much better. And I think Ed Harris was the best Sheriff Pangborn to date.

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hellrat wrote:

LoudLon wrote:

Well, a lot of King movies are flat out failures. I don't think there's any underrating going on when it comes to stuff like The Stand, The Langoliers, The Golden Years, etc. because, well, they were actually bad.

Personally I think the most under-rated is Needful Things. I loved the book but the ending was god-awful, which is something King actually does a lot -- pulls you into this great story and wows you and scares you and thrills you and then does something really lame for an ending. I mean seriously, Pangborn scares off the devil with a can of trick worms embued with the power of his love for his son? PSSSHHHHTT! The movie ending works SO much better. And I think Ed Harris was the best Sheriff Pangborn to date.

IMO.

Another to avoid is SleepWalkers.

Yep, Sleepwalkers sucks bad. Only cool part was the car chase scene. The Trans AM was awesome.